No 10 regrets choice of ‘insipid’ new cabinet secretary, sources say

Keir Starmer's aides said to be trying to work around Chris Wormald, who was only appointed six months ago

Keir Starmer's No 10 increasingly has buyer's remorse" about the new cabinet secretary, Chris Wormald, who has only been running the civil service for six months, Downing Street and Whitehall sources have told the Guardian.

Wormald, who was the permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care during the Covid pandemic, was chosen by the prime minister from a shortlist of four names.